· Private foundation
Charles Pankow Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $288k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $395k
- $250k+1 grant · $354k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $353,500 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $150,000 |
| UCLA | $75,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO | $68,961 |
| COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES | $51,000 |
| RDH BUILDING SCIENCE INC | $50,000 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY | $49,331 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY | $48,000 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $43,810 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $26,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO | $25,416 |
| CAL POLY | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO | $20,000 |
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.
37 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2024 · $833k · revenue +110%- UOUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $205k · revenue +44%
- TCTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA3× · 2017–2019 · $125k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- SGSIMPSON GUMPERTZ & HEGERone grant, 2022 · $271k
- SGSIMPSON GUMPERTZ & HEGER INCone grant, 2023 · $62k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTINone grant, 2018 · $49k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
To provide distinctive and relevant education in an environment of scientific, technological, and professional knowledge creation and innovation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
How this is measured
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 67 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Kansas Center for Research Inc ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
- Who funds ACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds CAL POLY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Charles Pankow Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles Pankow Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- Emerson Hospital: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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